modern lifestyles and mediterranean meeting people was hearing their dreams, a new journey this week on w ah, beat up the news live from berlin, russia and china bowed to deepen their partnership, president vladimir putin and cheating, paying meat for the 1st time since the war in ukraine they talk security and strengthening economic ties, but put in also makes a statement that's raising eyebrows. also coming up. you chief was to live on the

line, pays a visit to president for the demo lensky in key to discuss integrating ukraine in to europe. meanwhile, russia's attack, russia attacked the lives hometown, damaging political infrastructure and tennis. great raj, a federal announces his retirement, the 20 time grand slam singles. when describes his decision to leave the court as bittersweet after so many injuries as his body is trying to tell him something. ah, i've told me a lot. welcome to the program. russian president vladimir putin and his chinese counterpart shooting being, have held a 1st face to face talks since moscow's invasion of ukraine. speaking on the side of a summit. and it was becky stan,

put in thank to china for what he called. it's balance position towards ukraine. an urge deeper ties with a jing, but put an also seem to acknowledge friction with china, about russia's war in ukraine. laramie, a put in is in some a can to strengthen ties with some of his key partners. the young high corporation organization of you ration nations has grown insignificance for russia, since it's invasion of ukraine, let western state to impose sanctions and moscow. by far, the most important meeting for putin is with his chinese counterpart. she champagne . it's the chinese presidents, 1st foreign trip since the start of the corona virus pandemic, like killing despite warm words. and the opening remarks put in hinted at frictions with b jing over the invasion of ukraine. we highly value the balance position of our chinese friends when it comes to the ukraine crisis. we understand your

questions and concern about this. during today's meeting, we will of course, explain our position. western sanctions and moscow have pushed china and russia closer together economically. chinese products have replaced western ones and russia, while china is russia's biggest oil customer. she, jim ping sees the global role of the 2 countries going much further than trade corporation. in the future to be a china, together with russia, is ready to accept the part of great power long and all over. he ran to play a leading role in being of force for stability and positive energy in a world shaken by social unrest. joe drew the she did cruel when being she turned, as their leaders talking, as pakistan, china and russia are carrying out join military exercises near the pacific coast.

the shanghai corporation organization includes many of the former soviet republics and central asia, as well as india and pakistan. iran has expressed interest in joining turkey whose president is attending the summer. con summit is a full dialogue partner put in and reject it on our set to meet on friday. theresa fallon, founder and director of the center for russia, europe, asia studies in brussels, explained a cryptic message from putin that he's aware of beijing's concerns over the war in ukraine. i think it's important that he acknowledges that chinese economy is under stress because of food shortages and increase inflation. so i think that this is kind of putin acknowledging that nevertheless, they've made some really good deal because the oil is discounted by about 35 percent. so china is able to buy oil in

a very cheap rate right now from russia. that's their way of supporting russia as well. this is a really uncomfortable position for russia because they're starting to appeal, appear like a vassals statement telling energy and metals to, to china. china is clearly the bigger economy right now, far stronger. and, but china doesn't have that much influence over russia, and we have to zoom out of it and look at the bigger picture. russia, china prefers have russia in the tent than outside the tent because we saw what happened in 2014, with the war in crimea. that's, that was kind of a strategy for the belgian road initiative. and so they realize that if they didn't include russia, that they would hamper their efforts for the big west for central asian strategy. so i think clearly she didn't understand he has to work well. i would love to be a fun wallet that i know what they ask because he has a very big ego in. this is probably the worst optics for him, the timing of this as you know, meeting. so he really comes to

a very week after the ukranian advanced 10 days ago. so i think that she didn't ping, it might try to encourage him. she could, you know, play the big piece maker if you want. but i, it's also dangerous relationship. you know, they are sure huge border. russia has nuclear weapons. she jumping and put in are both kind of unpredictable leaders of mine. so i think he has very, very cautious and almost massage buttons. ego perhaps and reassure him. ballast theresa fallon, after center for russia, europe, asia studies. speaking to us earlier, now the european commission president was left on the line has promised president vladimir zalinski that ukraine will have the use on faltering support for as long as it takes from the lime, made the pledge on a visit to cuba to discuss ukraine's bid to join the e. u. a trip comes a week after ukraine begun a counter offensive, a forced russian troops to retreat from large parts of the countries north east.

morning like a meeting between old friends on her 3rd visit to ukraine since the war began. also a funded line received a warm welcome from president vladimir zalinski and an award for her commitment to e. you ukraine relations. among the talking points, the $8000000.00 plus people who fled to e. u. countries since the war began in february. we want of course, to have our to give our ukrainian friends when they need help as much support as possible. but we also know that they are longing to go home again. even as funder lines, night train made its way to keep russian rock had struck a reservoir dumb entreaty re an industrial center and president zalinski hometown. the resulting flood, inundated several roads and houses and the local drinking water supply was cut only

rucker, daily. the drains aren't working and we can't flush the toilet and work. everything's flooded and there's been no one from the disaster protection agency here since yesterday evening. i'm just microsoft in hotel now room president lensky said the russian strikes on the city so close to his roots had no military value. and the lensky said that fact shows russia is intent on attacking ukrainian civilians after ukraine's recent battlefield successes, pressures going on. the german government to increase its military support to ukraine. former boxing staff, latimer, clerical, has appealed to chancellor of schultz to stand on the right side of history and send more heavy weapons. clinical was speaking at a awards ceremony near berlin, where he was accepting a prize on behalf of the craning people. germany has so far refused to send high tech battle tanks to ukraine, saying it would weaken that country's own defenses. and d,

w spoke to clerical after his speech and he said, rushes trying to use energy supplies to dampen foreign support for ukraine. the prices are getting higher everywhere for every think and supply of the n resources . now the winter time is going to be more complex. so obviously one of the keys that russia is trying to use to weaken us the free world, so called free world therapy in union, that we're gonna change. we're your opinion is going to change their opinion about supporting ukraine, but we cannot let our us fail if we fail. you are gonna fail to. there is no exception and their propaganda already mentioned that ukraine is just the beginning . so let's make it the beginning and end of this aggression a formal boxing champion vladimir clinico, demanding more military aid from germany. now dw, political correspondent, in

a hazard witnessed the impact of that in person appeal. that is correct. and that was a big surprise actually. and even mister glitch go himself, said that he until the very last minute wasn't sure whether he was going to turn up here in person, in potsdam, near berlin, or whether he was going to accept the award digitally from the war zone from ukraine. but then he felt that it was necessary to come to germany and to remind the german chancellor and also the german people of the necessity to show solidarity. and more concretely, of course, to deliver those heavy weapons. those modern tanks that he says, ukraine desperately needs. he said we've shown that we can push back the russian military, but we need to seize this momentum. and modern combat tanks would help us tremendously . and he addressed chancellor charles, personally and said, you are on the right side of history. you have shown solidarity with ukraine,

but of course now you need to strengthen this position by delivering what we need and to please let us do this together. this was his message and actually there was quite a bit of tension here in the room because the representative from poland and the us were also here. and mr. glitch could thank them explicitly. but he, at this message of warning to the germans, essentially because he said that he can tell that people here are beginning to get tired of the war in ukraine, and that they're more worried about rising energy prices, et cetera. but that the people in ukraine don't have this luxury of getting tired of the war. socrates in pakistan now estimate that some 1500 people have lost their lives and the devastating flooding their hundreds of thousands more are said to be homeless as huge sways of the country remain under water. many areas badly hit by the flooding a heavily dependent on agriculture. meaning many farmers have also lost their livelihoods sailing through what was once it banana grew. mohammed

eunice is counting his losses. flood water has swallowed up his entire plantation, a vast area, foreign land stretching nearly 15 football fields. it is now nearly fully submerged . hoping to salvage some of the crops, he instructs a worker to jump in. but the water has seep through the fruit. again, no trader is going to buy these bananas even animals. what 8 them because they're rotten inside. like that unit says that his yield was normally worth the equivalent of almost $3000.00 us dollars for every harvest. but it's not just his livelihood that's at stake. like it to the mean if

anybody i own these lions and now they're all flooded. so my farm hands are all out of work now is i'm available until i did it on most of the workers here have been jobless since to flooding their homes. have also been destroyed, leaving many living in makeshift camps. and in sports, roger federer has announced his retirement for professional tennis. the 41 year old has decided to give his body arrest following his battles with a knee problem. fans from around the world will miss the all time. great. roger federer can look back on a long professional career. but after next week's labor cup will finally come to an end, as cetera announced on social media. mostly more than 1005 on a matches over 24 years. janice has treated me more generously than i ever would have dreamt. the now must recognize when it is time to end my competitive career.

the swiss ledgent made his professional debut in 1998 and was ranked number one in the world for 310 weeks, including a record 237 consecutive weeks. but fans will remember him not just 1st impressive stats, but for this style he was so fluid in made it look easy, never sweat, even when it was tough mat to point to me the jordan of tennis style class, amazing tennis player. so i been watching him since i was like 15. the 20 grand slam singles when i was dog by injuries in recent years and has been overtaken in the grand slam race by rivals, ruffle nadal, and novick. joke of ich federer is one of the highest paid athletes in sports and it's well known for his charity work around children's access to sports and disaster relief. though he'll hang up his racket by the months end. federal impact on tennis will stand strong for the years to come. you're watching d. w. news is

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